Job Description
Join a brand new team as the first engineer focused on embedding privacy-enhancing technologies into the Chainlink product stack. This role spans the development of both off-chain and on-chain privacy solutions to enhance the Chainlink runtime Environment. The mission is to introduce privacy solutions at every layer of Chainlink's operations, ensuring robust, customer-centric implementations to protect consumers and enable new use cases that rely on privacy.\n\nOur approach is practical and implementation-driven, emphasizing battle-tested protocols that meet the privacy requirements of diverse customers, from native DeFi protocols to traditional financial institutions navigating blockchain adoption in regulated settings. Experience with technologies like Privacy Pools, Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and Stealth Addresses will be highly advantageous.\n\nYou will work closely with our internal research team and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and pragmatic privacy solutions that address real-world challenges.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering
- Familiarity and experience working on privacy preserving technologies and/or cryptography
- Experience with blockchains or distributed ledgers
- Professional experience with large distributed systems
- Experience working with Trusted Execution Environments, such as SGX, AWS Nitro, GCP Confidential Compute